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TOY OR GAME. No. 342,677. Patented May 25, 1886;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS BRANDT, OF BIENNE, SVIT'ZERLAND.

TOY OR GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 342,677, dated May 25, 1886.

Application filed October 15, 1855. Serial No. 179,909. (No model.) Patented in France February 23, 1855, No. 164,958,- in Belgium March 6, 1885, No. 68,110; in England March 6, 1885, No. 2,984, and in Italy March .28, 1885, No. 18,046.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs BRANDT, a citizen of Switzerland, residing at Bienue, Switzerland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys or Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel toy, or game; and it consists in the features hereinafter described and claimed.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aside view, partly in section, showing the compartment uncovered. Fig. 2 is an end view partly in section.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the main part of the watch-case containing the B is the rear cover, which may be hinged to the main part or made independent of it, as shown; or the whole case may be This rear cover is provided with the receptacle or compartment 0, being separated from the movement by the partition a, which also forms the bottom of the compartment and prevents the entrance of any foreign substance to the movement. The compartment is provided with a cover, I), which In the center of the compartment is a pin, I), on which revolves the disk 0, on which may be placed or secured pictures, numbers, or characters, such as the game or toy may require. Above the disk, and rigidly secured to the pin (1, is a hand or pointer, d. On' the underside of the disk is secured a ratchet-wheel, e, which is engaged by a dog, f, mounted on a pin, 9, and connected to a link, h, which extends through an opening, 2", to the outside of the case. By drawing out this link h the dogf engages the teeth of the ratchet-wheel e, and as the link is released the action of the spring j causes said dog to fly back clear of the wheel, while the same is caused to revolve or spin by the impetus given to it by the quick return of the dog.

heretofore the ordinary cap of a watch-case has been provided with an attached bezel carrying a crystal to provide aspace between the cap and crystal for receiving a picture or other memento. A locket has also been provided with apartition dividing its body into two sections, one of which is arranged, in the usual manner, as a locket with a hinged lid, while the other section forms a space, and is provided with a hinged cap or stopper, so that perfume can be introduced into the space to provide a combined locket and smelling-bottle. A game board for throwing dice has also been pro vided with a cylindrical case containing a central arbor on which is journaled a ratchetwheel bearing on its upper side a wheel or disk for supporting the dice, the ratchet-wheel being rotated by a pivoted lever acted on by a spring; and, finally, a game has been composed of acase having a stationary dial, a disk and cog-Wheel journaled on an arbor, which also carries a pointer, the cog-wheel being rotated to move the disk and pointer by a segmental gear engaging the cog-wheel and oper ated by a sliding spring-impelled rod. Such difierent constructions, however, do not constitute myinvention, and are not claimed by me.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a toy or game consisting of a watch-case having its rear cover, 13, provided with a depressed partition, a, to form the chamber 0, a lid, D, removably secured to the edge of the cover, a pin, b, supported at its inner end by the central part of the depressed partition, the disk 0, revolving on the pin, the pointer d, the ratchet-wheel e, mounted on the pin between the partition and the disk, the pivoted dog f, pivoted to the partition in the chamber, a spring, j, acting on the dog, and a link, h, attached to the latter and extending through an opening in the watch-case to the exterior thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS BRANDT. [L s] Witnesses:

J ULIEN GALLET, FREDo. RiinGGnR. 

